Re: [gmane.emacs.bugs] Emacs fails to start properly if the current working directory is on a vfat or ntfs filesystem

[Stefan Monnier]

>> That's indeed what we should do.  If and when we ever get support for
>> filesystem-knowledge in the code, we may revisit this choice, but for
>> now, please someone change the code that auto-generates those filenames
>> to avoid characters known to be problematic.  Or better yet: to only
>> use those chars expected to be always work.

> Isn't that sort of dangerous?  If Emacs only uses characters which are
> _garanteed_ to work on any no matter how stupid, that would seem to
> dramatically increase the chances of a clash with a real filename...

A good reason to save those non-file-buffers in a separate directory.


        Stefan